http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=8074


For the first time, the entire Rolling Stones catalogue will be with one company, following Mick`s flick from Virgin to Universal Music.

Universal will begin a roll-out of the entire Stones catalogue from ‘Sticky Finger’ through to ‘A Bigger Bang’ totally remastered.

The first batch featuring ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Goats Head Soap’, ‘It’s Only Rock N Roll’ and ‘Black and Blue’ will be released on May 8.

On June 12, ‘Some Girls, ‘Emotional Rescue’, ‘Tattoo You’ and ‘Undercover’ will be reissued.

Then on July 17, ‘Dirty Work’, ‘Steel Wheels’, ‘Voodoo Lounge’, Bridges To Babylon’ and ‘A Bigger Bang’ will be back on the shelves.

‘Exile On Main Street’ is being held back for its own special release later in the year.

Max Hole of Universal said in a statement “The Rolling Stones redefined music. By making these iconic albums available again – and retaining the essence of the original track listings and sleeve design – we believe that music fans will rediscover just why they are the world’s greatest rock & roll band.”

All albums will be re-mastered and all retain the original track listing and sleeve design.

A collectors box featuring all 14 albums will be released later in the year.

All albums will also be made available as downloads.

1st batch – May 8
Sticky Fingers [2009 re-mastered]
Tracklisting:
Brown Sugar
Sway
Wild Horses
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
You Gotta Move
Bitch
I Got The Blues
Sister Morphine
Dead Flowers
Moonlight Mile

Goats Head Soup [2009 re-mastered]
Tracklisting:
Dancing With Mr D.
100 Years
Coming Down Again
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Angie
Silver Train
Hide Your Love
Winter
Can You Hear The Music
Star Star

It's Only Rock 'N' Roll [2009 re-mastered]
Tracklisting:
If You can’t Rock me
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll (But I Like It)
Till The Next Goodbye
Time Waits For No One
Luxury
Dance Little Sister
If You Really Want To Be My Friend
Short And Curlies
Fingerprint File

Black And Blue [2009 re-mastered ]
Tracklisting:
Hot Stuff
Hand Of Fate
Cherry Oh Baby
Memory Motel
Hey Negrita
Melody
Fool To Cry
Crazy Mama

2nd batch –June 12
1. Some Girls [2009 re-mastered]
2. Emotional Rescue [2009 re-mastered]
3. Tattoo You [2009 re-mastered]
4. Undercover [2009 re-mastered]

3rd batch – July 17
1. Dirty Work [2009 re-mastered]
2. Steel Wheels [2009 re-mastered]
3. Voodoo Lounge [2009 re-mastered]
4. Bridges To Babylon [2009 re-mastered]
5. A Bigger Bang [2009 re-mastered]

Please note:
Exile On Main Street will be released later this year, as part of wider plans for this title.

"All albums will be available as downloads"...whoopeee remastered MP3's.....Like there not available now.What a joke...is the Easter Egg kid handling this project?

In my opinion the Expanded Exile will feature CS Blues film on DVD.

riccardo wrote on Apr 17^th, 2009 at 12:04am:



In mine, there's as much chance of Brian playing on the next tour as there is of that happening...

Much more chance of 'Ladies & Gentlemen' being released with though - although I dont think theres much likelihood of that happening either.

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Cool!  I'll finally be able to get the original sleeve design for A Bigger Bang!

"Remastered"


I am sick to death of that term and of music companies trying to get me to cough up my meager dollars to buy yet another "better (or BEST) sounding" version of the same damn song I have..

Give me New tunes damn it!!

Unreleased tunes-I just might bite -unless it is the same bootleg stuff we already own

Wow... so the whole "Deluxe Edition" thing was just a crock.

This is ri-godddamn-diculous.

You know, I picked up the Grateful Dead's latest vault release today: To Terrapin: Hartford '77. And I wondered aloud, "You know, these guys aren't even technically together any more, but they treat their fans very, very well with these vault releases. What's the Rolling Stones' fucking problem?"

gimmekeef wrote on Apr 17^th, 2009 at 8:14am:

dude...

I'm amazed how poorly their back catalogue sells. Trying to get "new" fans (fat chance) without making the old records/cd's different to some one's dad or older sibling (and yeah, i guess grand dad) is dumb. Just re-hashing it is not going to do anything. THE WHO got it perfect with their re-releases.

Unless these are the most amazing re-mixes ever heard.

Which i doubt.

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Imagine a run of classic Stones shows being covered in such depth - MSG '72 for starters.

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Please put the pipe down...NOW!!!

corgi37 wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2009 at 3:13am:



I'm honestly surprised thats given so much emphasis, corgi. Who in their 60's plays and sings better than they did in their 20's?

I can see your point but I dont think its a big deal. After all, the people who were going to see the Stones in 1972 are not - for the most part - still going to see them now. Most fans from 1972 are pretty oblivious to what the band sound like in concert in 2009 (or rather 2007) and dont care to know either. And probably vice versa. Most people attending Stones shows now couldnt even name the guitarist that Ronnie Wood replaced, and I was stunned on the last tour to read interviews with 'fans' who had travelled across continents to see the opening night in Boston and yet when asked about Brian Jones had never even heard of him.

Fair point, Jizzy - Chairman Pete and Shakey certainly sprung to mind for me as well.

Manual dexterity largely doesnt improve with age though, even though technique should with years of practice.

Some more gossip on the Exile remaster, via Halup on IORR (he was the guy who Don Was played the just mastered 'She Saw Me Coming' for on his car hi-fi four years ago on the night 'A Bigger Bang' had just been finished)

I talked to Don Was 2 1/2 weeks ago after a charity show he performed at with Glenn Frey at the Roxy in Los Angeles. He told me he has been working on the Exile deluxe edition and indicated that it will include unreleased tracks. He said there's a lot of songs they are going through. Was indicated nothing about the deluxe edition including a DVD, but maybe he's not involved with that part of it.

We also talked about A Bigger Bang and he said he really tried to convince Mick and Keith to release it as a 12 song album. He also feels that from all the outtakes since he began working with them in 1993, that there's 2 albums worth of good material. Was didn't say it, but maybe they will compile a Tattoo You like album out of that for future release and maybe a tour could come on the heels of that?